Posts by: Team Juggernaut

Here’s how the year in publishing is looking to Karthika VK, publisher and chief editor, HarperCollins India; Diya Kar Hazra, Publisher, Pan Macmillan India, and Chiki Sarkar, founder-publisher, Juggernaut. Excerpts from three conversations.
On whether there’s room for all kinds of books any more:
Karthika: It...

The writer shares his literary trends for 2016, particularly placing a lot of hope on fiction, mobile publishing and translations.
When I first heard about it, I was sceptical about its chances. But in a country, where there are about 160 million smartphones in use, mobile publishing looks like an extremely...

Former publisher of Penguin India, Chiki Sarkar, launched a publishing company called Juggernaut last week. It’s billed as a digital platform with a huge focus on the mobilephone – in addition to good old physical publishing. She’s launching it with Durga Raghunath, founder of digital newsroom, Firstpost and...

‘My aim was to build the strongest, most respected publishing team in the country with the best partners and advisers in every field’
Chiki Sarkar, former publisher of Penguin India and editor-in-chief of Random House India, has set up a publishing company, Juggernaut, with Durga Raghunath, CEO and co-founder, who...

There’s a new publishing company in town, and not everyone might know just what to make of it. It’s called Juggernaut. Like the chariot and the god. It’s been started by Chiki Sarkar, former publisher at Penguin Random House India and its earlier avatar, Penguin Books India.
Juggernaut, where Sarkar is...